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I started “playing around” with blogging back in 2006. It started as a way of journaling for me. I’ve always loved to write. Then people started to comment and I realized they actually cared about what I was saying. I didn’t do it regularly, but always enjoyed it when I did.
Fast Forward to 2007
I really decided to get into this blogging thing and so I started my first WordPress blog. I posted once or twice per week. I didn’t have many readers, but I wasn’t doing anything to push it. I was still in the beginning stages of understanding the effects of social media. Again, I wasn’t really writing for people to read. I was writing as a way of expressing myself.
August 2009-2010
I took a year off and checked into the Table Rock Freedom Center. Occasionally I would have a friend post a blog for me that I had written during my time there, but it stayed pretty quiet.
I was back to the blog as soon as I reintroduced myself to the internet world after completing TRFC. One of the first things I did was add a page for the organization to let others know why it worked. Very few people ever clicked on the page. That was in August 2010.
Fast Forward to September 2010
People other than my parents were actually commenting on the blog. I was getting a tribe. That same month I met a new student at TRFC from Kansas City. How did she find out about it?
My Blog
She read part of my testimony, visited their website, and quickly made the road trip to Branson to check in. That, my friends, is the power of Jesus! Soon after, her sister joined the program.
August 2011
A devoted reader to my blog stayed up to date on my posts. She could see the changes God had made in me through my words and she wanted the same for her sister. She shared with her things about TRFC and what God had done in my life. After a weekend intervention, her sister walked through the front doors where she is still a student today.
To this day, the last tab at the top doesn’t get a lot of traffic. It doesn’t matter. Why? Because God sends the exact right people there in His time. Women are being set free because of what God did in my life, and the fact that I’m willing to talk about it. If people never read another post again, it was all worth it.

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That, my friends, is why you could never pay me to quit blogging.

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